GooseRadio New Music Review

Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
On this “back-to-basics” release, the Chicago punks continue to plumb the depths of unhealthy relationships, fully relying on the drug addiction metaphor the title implies. An ominous atmosphere surrounds This Addiction and is most fully felt on the stellar “Fine” where the analogy of raining for days makes it’s second [...]

Best Albums of the Decade (or ‘Sorry, ‘04 and ‘05, You’re Not Invited’)

January might be almost over, but if we concentrate hard enough, most of us can still remember those days of yore, those faint and misty memories, those nostalgia laden yesteryears that were the … um, the … the last 10 years. What are we supposed to call that decade, anyway? The two-thousands? The zeros? The [...]

GooseRadio Winter Music Guide

A few artists and albums that are getting us through the winter doldrums, enjoy!
Vampire Weekend – Contra
Terms like “afro-pop” follow this band around and, admittedly, I have no idea what that means, but I do understand the preppy, collegiate label they’ve received as Contra sounds like the soundtrack to all those daydreams of what you [...]

Guest Take – Top 10 Albums of ‘09

Better late than never…our friend Nicorelli from 99.7 KISS FM in Springfield, Illinois (yes, the birthplace of Barack H. Obama) shares his top 10 albums of 2009. Go figure, he and Alex have the same taste in music, but he brings an Illinois-y perspective to last year’s best, enjoy!
P.S. You can listen to Nicorelli weeknights, [...]

GooseRadio Top 10 Albums of 2009

10) Bruce Springsteen – Working on A Dream

As The Boss makes his transition to “seasoned citizen” all of his words on this record seem to carry a bit of wisdom. “Outlaw Pete” is reminiscent of his earlier narrative tunes, but the majority of Working on A Dream is filled with sage advice and anecdotal [...]

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